I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know–there’s a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me–loved...

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he...

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let’s go on trying.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Names are not always what they seem.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and...

The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before...

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little...

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

Behold, the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” – which is but a matter of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention”; but the wise man saith, “Pull all your...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank...

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had...

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could...

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Everybody granted that if “Tom” were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him–it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life–that was quite another...

To me [Edgar Allen Poe’s] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin’s [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane’s. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity...

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Drag your thoughts awayfrom your troubles…by the ears, by the heels,or any other way you can manage it.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal… In truth, man is incurably foolish....

Sing like no one is listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody is watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.